Zynaptiq PITCHMAP::COLORS Pitchshifter Plug-In

Zynaptiq ZYN-PMC Overview

Fusing the advanced pitch-mapping tech of the popular PITCHMAP plug-in with additional features and streamlining for real-time electronic music production, PITCHMAP::COLORS from Zynaptiq makes it easier than ever to conform your audio to your chosen key or scale, colorize bass and synth tracks, and turn atonal elements into harmonic content. With three modes of operation, SICK, NSANE, and WTF, you can transform audio with a single click, or get granular with a whole toolbox of tricks.

Choose keys, play chords you want your audio to match, or control everything via MIDI. New scale-shifting techniques let you quickly find the sweet spot within a scale and automate. Formant processing allows you to make pitch shifts and use Formant Gamma, a feature for creating unique exaggerated effects akin to modulating a filter back on itself. With Transient Bypass, you gain full control over the transient content of your audio signals, taking out or boosting transients. This plug-in is available in AU, AAX, VST2.4, and VST3 formats for 64-bit macOS and Windows computers.

Colorize Your Sound

Like its popular sibling PITCHMAP, PITCHMAP::COLORS conforms any audio to whatever tonality you want, quickly and easily. It does so with a distinctly electronic flavor geared for sound design. Switch between the SICK setting, the gloriously resonant NSANE, and the mesmerizingly electric WTF modes, with a single click.

Map Those Pitches

PITCHMAP::COLORS works by separating the input audio into separate sounds based on their pitch, then shifting each up or down to fit a pitch grid individually. This grid is set up using the UI keyboard or a MIDI keyboard just play the chords that you want to shape the tonality of your audio. Turn major into minor, A minor 7 to F# Major, or wobble bass and noise into harmonic content.

Tweak That Sound

PITCHMAP::COLORS goes way beyond just pitch-mapping your audio. On top of switching the pitch-mapping algorithm itself between three types of awesome modes, the plug-in also provides scale shifting, advanced formant processing, and transient bypass functionality, as well as high-pass and low-pass filters. Create harmonic processing in seconds.

Scale Shift

The Scale Shift parameter makes it easier than ever to sweep through the pitch grid. Find the sweet spot within the scale, or automate Scale Shift as a new arrangement technique, with a single MIDI-controllable parameter.

Formant Shift

PITCHMAP::COLORS features a powerful formant shifter, for changing the perceived size of the sound and making large pitch shifts more natural sounding. Its two octave range has you covered from huge demon voices to hyperactive chipmunks, and a 0.01 semitone resolution provides butter-smooth automations.

Formant Gamma

The formant shifter sports a unique function called Formant Gamma that exaggerates formant peaks and troughs. Think of it as a complex self-modulating filter that creates far-out organic-sounding mutations that add movement and an alien sonic quality to your mix.

Transient Bypass

The more extreme sound modes can smooth out transients in a cool way, but sometimes you may want the transient detail. Enter PITCHMAP::COLOR`s super-easy-to-use and great-sounding Transient Bypass. Just dial in the amount of transients that you want to take out of the pitch mapping and then mix back in afterwards. Optionally, boost them beyond their original level, with just one control.